"One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones."

"Life is a wheel. Sooner or later, it always comes around to where you started again."

"The mind can be a dark and scary place, but it can also be a beautiful and wondrous one."

"I'm a slow writer. I'm a fast reader."

"It's all right to fail. It's not all right to give up."